A few Linux commands offer different ways to see which users are logging into your Linux servers, how often they log in, and how long they’ve been active or idle. If you want to get a report to see ...

Maintaining system performance and guaranteeing security depend on good log management. Centralizing, sorting, and analyzing log data from many devices and applications across a network greatly ...

A minor incident this week has prompted me to ask the question: What are some of the "best practices" when it comes to setting up logging for Cisco devices (or any other device for that ...

Syslog messages circulate around your network and provide valuable information for system monitoring. You don't have to pay anything for this information if you use a free Syslog server. The Syslog ...

Having performed numerous incident response engagements for small to midsize businesses, the thing that causes never-ending frustration is the lack of logging. There have been a few exceptions where a ...

First and foremost, users need to install the Windows Server Essentials Log Collector Package. For that, check out the steps to learn how to do it: In case, users need to reinstall Log Collector ...

In a column about syslog [see “syslog Configuration” in the December 2001 issue of LJ] I mentioned “stealth logging”--by running your central log server without an IP address, you can hide your ...